David Bowie Vector Portrait

1) As the artist of this piece, my main objective was to create an image from a posterized version of Bowie's iconic self portrait. Although I did not stray far from the colors used in the original image, I did add my own personal touch by rounding a lot of the "pointier" shapes that I came across and tried to make the shapes on the image as smooth and clean as possible.

2) I primarily used the pen tool to create the shapes seen on David Bowie and then filled in the spaces with the paint brush tool.

3) One advantage of using the pen tool to create paths was being able to make shapes of all different sizes no matter how odd, so easily to conform to the shapes of the different color values on Bowie's face.

4) I fulfilled the requirements of this project because I used at least four values on the face, neck and hair, and used the pen tool to create the shapes, and managed to make this look nicer than the posterized version.

5) One of the challenges I faced was making the eyes look natural since Bowie has two different eye shapes and one of the eyes is in front of the lightning bolt.

6) I feel like I successfully completed the project because when people have come into the room to visit and see my computer, they immediately recognized David Bowie and one of my goals was to make this image look like my subject.